We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
GEORGE ELIOTExamining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
More George Eliot Quotes
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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